Physics 1 Grading & Assignments

Grades: Tests are 75% of your grade, assignments are 25%

Tests typically consist of a multiple choice section and a free response and problem section. The multiple choice section often emphasizes text material, the free response section often emphasizes the lecture and handout materials.

Assignments consist of

• review questions (at the end of each chapter of your text) or chapter notes (must be at least 2 handwritten pages),
• lab and group exercises,
• abstracts  (miniture book reports on physics related magazine or internet articles),
• practice problems (often not graded).

GRADE AVERAGING

• Each term grade is worth 20% of the final grade.
• Each exam grade is worth 10% of the final grade.
• The final grade will be averaged from the term and exam percentages, not from the letter grades!

(Your test scores / Possible test scores) x (75) + (Your assignment scores / Possible assignment scores) x (25) = Your Percentage Score for the term.

Calculators
A scientific calculator is required, but the use of programmable calculators is not permitted during tests.

Q-days (Quiz or Test Days)
To prevent quiz-dodging, students are permitted to miss only 2 quiz or test days for any reason.  After the second quiz absence, make-up tests will be scored at a reduced percentage.  [This process can be appealed only under extremely special circumstances.]
  
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